He placed about 80 troops in SA and broke into Africa, and could have instead used them on that Pevek/Alaska border and broken your bonus, as there was no way I would have broken into SA. j1236 would have held on to the NA bonus while breaking the Asia bonus. But it's looking like your game now Timmy, unless j1236 breaks into Asia ;) (hint: leave me alone in Africa, haha)

I may be biased here, but I don't think he "gave up" NA, as we were pretty much at a stalemate at the Pevek/Alaska border and I placed all of my armies in Pevek in order to break into NA. It's still anyone's game, though.